ISACA Reporting relevant IT risks to stakeholdersMarc Vael
A presentation I made for the ISACA Belgium open forum of June 2015 in Brussels on Reporting relevant IT risks to stakeholders. This presentation served as starter for the discussions in the open forum.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
HACKERONE
HACKER-POWERED SECURITY REPORT
2017
Executive Summary
Hacker-Powered Security: a report drawn from 800+ programs
and nearly 50,000 resolved security vulnerabilities.
Bug bounty and hacker-powered security programs are becoming the norm, used by organizations as diverse as Facebook and the U.S. government. Forty-one percent of bug bounty programs were from industries other than technology in 2016. Top companies are rewarding hackers up to $900,000 a year in bounties and bounty rewards on average have increased 16 percent for critical issues since 2015. Despite
bug bounty program adoption and increased reward competitiveness, vulnerability disclosure programs still lag behind. Ninety-four percent of the Forbes Global 2000 companies do not have policies.
It’s time to give security teams the tools they need to keep up with ever-faster development. This report examines the broadest platform data set available and explains why organizations like General Motors, Starbucks,
Uber, the U.S. Department of Defense, Lufthansa, and Nintendo have embraced continuous, hacker-powered security.
Go to www.esgjrconsultinginc.com to learn more about Software/Network Engineering Solutions for the 21st Century Digital Economy, IoT and IoE Concepts.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
SANS 2013 Report: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey FireEye, Inc.
Cloud computing and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplace policies are expanding the endpoints in IT infrastructures — and more complexity when it comes to investigating cyber attacks. The SANS 2013 Report on Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey reveals some of the major difficulties that security professionals face in this new environment and how to better prepare for future investigations. Collecting responses from more than 450 security professionals across a range of industries and company sizes, the survey found that nearly 90 percent of respondents had conducted at least one forensics investigation within the last two years. But just 54 percent called their digital forensics capabilities “reasonably effective.” For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html
ISACA Reporting relevant IT risks to stakeholdersMarc Vael
A presentation I made for the ISACA Belgium open forum of June 2015 in Brussels on Reporting relevant IT risks to stakeholders. This presentation served as starter for the discussions in the open forum.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
HACKERONE
HACKER-POWERED SECURITY REPORT
2017
Executive Summary
Hacker-Powered Security: a report drawn from 800+ programs
and nearly 50,000 resolved security vulnerabilities.
Bug bounty and hacker-powered security programs are becoming the norm, used by organizations as diverse as Facebook and the U.S. government. Forty-one percent of bug bounty programs were from industries other than technology in 2016. Top companies are rewarding hackers up to $900,000 a year in bounties and bounty rewards on average have increased 16 percent for critical issues since 2015. Despite
bug bounty program adoption and increased reward competitiveness, vulnerability disclosure programs still lag behind. Ninety-four percent of the Forbes Global 2000 companies do not have policies.
It’s time to give security teams the tools they need to keep up with ever-faster development. This report examines the broadest platform data set available and explains why organizations like General Motors, Starbucks,
Uber, the U.S. Department of Defense, Lufthansa, and Nintendo have embraced continuous, hacker-powered security.
Go to www.esgjrconsultinginc.com to learn more about Software/Network Engineering Solutions for the 21st Century Digital Economy, IoT and IoE Concepts.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
SANS 2013 Report: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey FireEye, Inc.
Cloud computing and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplace policies are expanding the endpoints in IT infrastructures — and more complexity when it comes to investigating cyber attacks. The SANS 2013 Report on Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey reveals some of the major difficulties that security professionals face in this new environment and how to better prepare for future investigations. Collecting responses from more than 450 security professionals across a range of industries and company sizes, the survey found that nearly 90 percent of respondents had conducted at least one forensics investigation within the last two years. But just 54 percent called their digital forensics capabilities “reasonably effective.” For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html
Today, the delegation of risk decisions to the IT team
cannot be the only solution and has to be a shared
responsibility. The board and business executives are
expected to incorporate the management of cyber risk
as part of their business strategy since they are
accountable to stakeholders, regulators and
customers. For the CROs, CISOs, and Security and Risk
Management Professionals to be on the same page,
there has to be a single source of truth for
communicating the impact that cyber risk has on
business outcomes, in a language that everyone can
understand.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
The FireEye Advanced Threat Report is based on research and trend analysis conducted by the FireEye Malware Intelligence Labs providing insights to the most current threat landscapes.
118 Hacker-Powered Facts From The 2018 Hacker-Powered Security ReportHackerOne
Another year, another Hacker-Powered Security Report! We pulled out 100 of the report’s top facts—and then added 18 more, since it’s 2018. See below for a better understanding of how hacker-powered security is disrupting (in a good way) how organizations approach security. More security teams are adding VDPs, more are supplementing their skills and bandwidth with hackers, and more are augmenting their standard pen tests with hacker challenges.
In 2018, the HackerOne community and those using our platform have combined to crush every metric that we track. Organizations awarded more than $11 million in bounties. Hackers submitted more than 78,000 reports. Bounties were awarded to hackers in over 100 countries.
Unfortunately, the only metric that hasn’t changed much is the percentage of Forbes Global 2000 companies without vulnerability disclosure policies.
Read on for all of the facts!
Project 4 Threat Analysis and ExploitationTranscript (backgroun.docxstilliegeorgiana
Project 4: Threat Analysis and Exploitation
Transcript (background):
You are part of a collaborative team that was created to address cyber threats and exploitation of US financial systems critical infrastructure. Your team has been assembled by the White House Cyber National security staff to provide situational awareness about a current network breach and cyber attack against several financial service institutions. Your team consists of four roles, a representative from the financial services sector who has discovered the network breach and the cyber attacks. These attacks include distributed denial of service attacks, DDOS, web defacements, sensitive data exfiltration, and other attack vectors typical of this nation state actor. A representative from law enforcement who has provided additional evidence of network attacks found using network defense tools. A representative from the intelligence agency who has identified the nation state actor from numerous public and government provided threat intelligence reports. This representative will provide threat intelligence on the tools, techniques, and procedures of this nation state actor. A representative from the Department of Homeland Security who will provide the risk, response, and recovery actions taken as a result of this cyber threat. Your team will have to provide education and security awareness to the financial services sector about the threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and risk mitigation and remediation procedures to be implemented to maintain a robust security posture. Finally, your team will take the lessons learned from this cyber incident and share that knowledge with the rest of the cyber threat analysis community. At the end of the response to this cyber incident, your team will provide two deliverables, a situational analysis report, or SAR, to the White House Cyber National security staff and an After Action Report and lesson learned to the cyber threat analyst community.
Step 2: Assessing Suspicious Activity
Your team is assembled and you have a plan. It's time to get to work. You have a suite of tools at your disposal from your work in Project 1, Project 2, and Project 3, which can be used together to create a full common operating picture of the cyber threats and vulnerabilities that are facing the US critical infrastructure.
To be completed by all team members: Leverage the network security skills of using port scans, network scanning tools, and analyzing Wireshark files, to assess any suspicious network activity and network vulnerabilities.
Step 3: The Financial Sector
To be completed by the Financial Services Representative: Provide a description of the impact the threat would have on the financial services sector. These impact statements can include the loss of control of the systems, the loss of data integrity or confidentiality, exfiltration of data, or something else. Also provide impact assessments as a result of this security incident to the financial ...
Risk Management Following are the main risks that Itrustu In.pdfadaacollections
Risk Management
Following are the main risks that Itrustu Insurance plans for mitigating against:
- Cyber threats (hacking, spam or fraud, malware, ransomware, phishing, confidentiality, data or
Identity theft and others)
- Loss of IT, telephony and/or network communications for longer than one day
-Flood that causes denial of access to a building
- Loss of power
- Snow storm
The risk UT has not been anticipating in their Risk Management plan is pandemic
Risk Management plan In Pandemic
COVID-19 has changed the world and organizations need to upscale with the changing face of the
world. Organizations not only needed to provide quick response and increase the availability of
resources but should be able to incorporate the new NORMAL into their operations resiliently.
The Pandemic has shifted all eyes to RM professionals and all the executives are looking for
answers. This the real test of your Risk Management plan and response, do you have your
processes automated, integrated work plans, communications and reporting that scale globally?
On top of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of a cyber-attack, natural disasters and
breaches caused by third-party vendors are still growing. Its not enough to demonstrate you have
a plan but to proof that it will work. The role of the Risk Management plan has evolved, and you
must evolve with it.
As you know , COVID-19 has been reported almost every single country across the globe. Itrustu
is trying its best to come up with a comprehensive Risk Management plan and are working hard to
develop a crisis leadership team responsible for pandemic plan implementation. The team should
have representatives from the executive leadership and from each functional area in the
organization including account management, business operations, communications, sales, human
resources, marketing and last but not least the IT department.
Top Ten Risks to Insurers
Below is the list of the most critical risks identified by insurance companies in a recent survey:
1. Cybersecurity and cybercrime
2. Disruptive technology
3. Pricing and product line profit
4. Legislative and regulatory
5. IT/systems and tech gap
6. Interest rate change
7. Competition
8. Natural catastrophe
9. Climate change
10. Emerging risks (such as pandemic)
The Main ITRUSTU Insurance Products
1. Car insurance
2. Travel insurance
3. Life insurance
4. Pension plans
5. Motorcycles RVs insurance
6 . Home Condo Renter insurance
To complete a Risk Management plan for an insurance company five elements must be
investigated.
1. People
2. Buildings/ infrastructures
3. Information
4. Technology
5. Suppliers
The risk of unavailability of each of these elements must be analyzed and probabilities must be
assigned to each of the threats.
Template 5: Risk Response
Undertaking the evaluation of the risk consequences for each of the significant risks and recording
the results in Template 4 will enable the organization to decide what, if any, further actions are
required. Tem.
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) primarily focuses on analysing raw data gathered from recent and past events to monitor, detect and prevent threats to an organisation, shifting the focus from reactive to preventive intelligent security measures.
Each week DroneSec releases a summary of the last week's incidents and reports regarding drone security.
This edition is free for public use. To receive similar reports like these, subscripe here: https://dronesec.com/pages/dronesec-notify
To view the Threat Intelligence platform, view more information here: https://dronesec.com/pages/notify
Today, the delegation of risk decisions to the IT team
cannot be the only solution and has to be a shared
responsibility. The board and business executives are
expected to incorporate the management of cyber risk
as part of their business strategy since they are
accountable to stakeholders, regulators and
customers. For the CROs, CISOs, and Security and Risk
Management Professionals to be on the same page,
there has to be a single source of truth for
communicating the impact that cyber risk has on
business outcomes, in a language that everyone can
understand.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
The FireEye Advanced Threat Report is based on research and trend analysis conducted by the FireEye Malware Intelligence Labs providing insights to the most current threat landscapes.
118 Hacker-Powered Facts From The 2018 Hacker-Powered Security ReportHackerOne
Another year, another Hacker-Powered Security Report! We pulled out 100 of the report’s top facts—and then added 18 more, since it’s 2018. See below for a better understanding of how hacker-powered security is disrupting (in a good way) how organizations approach security. More security teams are adding VDPs, more are supplementing their skills and bandwidth with hackers, and more are augmenting their standard pen tests with hacker challenges.
In 2018, the HackerOne community and those using our platform have combined to crush every metric that we track. Organizations awarded more than $11 million in bounties. Hackers submitted more than 78,000 reports. Bounties were awarded to hackers in over 100 countries.
Unfortunately, the only metric that hasn’t changed much is the percentage of Forbes Global 2000 companies without vulnerability disclosure policies.
Read on for all of the facts!
Project 4 Threat Analysis and ExploitationTranscript (backgroun.docxstilliegeorgiana
Project 4: Threat Analysis and Exploitation
Transcript (background):
You are part of a collaborative team that was created to address cyber threats and exploitation of US financial systems critical infrastructure. Your team has been assembled by the White House Cyber National security staff to provide situational awareness about a current network breach and cyber attack against several financial service institutions. Your team consists of four roles, a representative from the financial services sector who has discovered the network breach and the cyber attacks. These attacks include distributed denial of service attacks, DDOS, web defacements, sensitive data exfiltration, and other attack vectors typical of this nation state actor. A representative from law enforcement who has provided additional evidence of network attacks found using network defense tools. A representative from the intelligence agency who has identified the nation state actor from numerous public and government provided threat intelligence reports. This representative will provide threat intelligence on the tools, techniques, and procedures of this nation state actor. A representative from the Department of Homeland Security who will provide the risk, response, and recovery actions taken as a result of this cyber threat. Your team will have to provide education and security awareness to the financial services sector about the threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and risk mitigation and remediation procedures to be implemented to maintain a robust security posture. Finally, your team will take the lessons learned from this cyber incident and share that knowledge with the rest of the cyber threat analysis community. At the end of the response to this cyber incident, your team will provide two deliverables, a situational analysis report, or SAR, to the White House Cyber National security staff and an After Action Report and lesson learned to the cyber threat analyst community.
Step 2: Assessing Suspicious Activity
Your team is assembled and you have a plan. It's time to get to work. You have a suite of tools at your disposal from your work in Project 1, Project 2, and Project 3, which can be used together to create a full common operating picture of the cyber threats and vulnerabilities that are facing the US critical infrastructure.
To be completed by all team members: Leverage the network security skills of using port scans, network scanning tools, and analyzing Wireshark files, to assess any suspicious network activity and network vulnerabilities.
Step 3: The Financial Sector
To be completed by the Financial Services Representative: Provide a description of the impact the threat would have on the financial services sector. These impact statements can include the loss of control of the systems, the loss of data integrity or confidentiality, exfiltration of data, or something else. Also provide impact assessments as a result of this security incident to the financial ...
Risk Management Following are the main risks that Itrustu In.pdfadaacollections
Risk Management
Following are the main risks that Itrustu Insurance plans for mitigating against:
- Cyber threats (hacking, spam or fraud, malware, ransomware, phishing, confidentiality, data or
Identity theft and others)
- Loss of IT, telephony and/or network communications for longer than one day
-Flood that causes denial of access to a building
- Loss of power
- Snow storm
The risk UT has not been anticipating in their Risk Management plan is pandemic
Risk Management plan In Pandemic
COVID-19 has changed the world and organizations need to upscale with the changing face of the
world. Organizations not only needed to provide quick response and increase the availability of
resources but should be able to incorporate the new NORMAL into their operations resiliently.
The Pandemic has shifted all eyes to RM professionals and all the executives are looking for
answers. This the real test of your Risk Management plan and response, do you have your
processes automated, integrated work plans, communications and reporting that scale globally?
On top of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of a cyber-attack, natural disasters and
breaches caused by third-party vendors are still growing. Its not enough to demonstrate you have
a plan but to proof that it will work. The role of the Risk Management plan has evolved, and you
must evolve with it.
As you know , COVID-19 has been reported almost every single country across the globe. Itrustu
is trying its best to come up with a comprehensive Risk Management plan and are working hard to
develop a crisis leadership team responsible for pandemic plan implementation. The team should
have representatives from the executive leadership and from each functional area in the
organization including account management, business operations, communications, sales, human
resources, marketing and last but not least the IT department.
Top Ten Risks to Insurers
Below is the list of the most critical risks identified by insurance companies in a recent survey:
1. Cybersecurity and cybercrime
2. Disruptive technology
3. Pricing and product line profit
4. Legislative and regulatory
5. IT/systems and tech gap
6. Interest rate change
7. Competition
8. Natural catastrophe
9. Climate change
10. Emerging risks (such as pandemic)
The Main ITRUSTU Insurance Products
1. Car insurance
2. Travel insurance
3. Life insurance
4. Pension plans
5. Motorcycles RVs insurance
6 . Home Condo Renter insurance
To complete a Risk Management plan for an insurance company five elements must be
investigated.
1. People
2. Buildings/ infrastructures
3. Information
4. Technology
5. Suppliers
The risk of unavailability of each of these elements must be analyzed and probabilities must be
assigned to each of the threats.
Template 5: Risk Response
Undertaking the evaluation of the risk consequences for each of the significant risks and recording
the results in Template 4 will enable the organization to decide what, if any, further actions are
required. Tem.
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) primarily focuses on analysing raw data gathered from recent and past events to monitor, detect and prevent threats to an organisation, shifting the focus from reactive to preventive intelligent security measures.
Each week DroneSec releases a summary of the last week's incidents and reports regarding drone security.
This edition is free for public use. To receive similar reports like these, subscripe here: https://dronesec.com/pages/dronesec-notify
To view the Threat Intelligence platform, view more information here: https://dronesec.com/pages/notify
Top industry use cases for streaming analyticsIBM Analytics
Organizations need to get high value from streaming data to gain new clients and capitalize on market opportunities. Discover how IBM Streams is best suited for use cases that has the need for high speed and low latency.
Booz Allen Hamilton focuses on defining the vulnerabilities
further and identifying the potential mobile security exploits that could harm or damage a business. This article covers Booz Allen's approach to helping organizations develop a secure and effective mobile application security program.
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Form Responses 1TimestampUntitled Question
Risk TableRisk IDID DateCause(s) Risk NameConsequenceRisk DetailsRisk Owner (Responsible Person or Group)ProbabilityImpactRisk ScoreResponse Action TypeResponse Actions111/6/22Internet problemstechnologicalZero access to systemsPoor internet Due to ISP issuesInternet providerLikelyMinorAcceptable Risk: MediumTransfer Automaic recover211/6/22incorrect information/dataData lossincomplete information/dataData in transit is corruptedcloud service providerUnlikelyMajorAcceptable Risk: MediumAvoiduse of software that will check the integrity of data311/6/22Denial of servicevendorrevenue loss/ system outageusers cannot access the systemvendorLikelyMajorAcceptable Risk: MediumTransfer Automaic recover411/6/22Cloud servive management interfaceRemote access to management interfacesince cloud service is public it posses a risk that hackers can access the systems remotelymost of te management activities are connected through the cloud and if hacked can couse major problemscloud service providerVery LikelyMajorUnacceptable Risk: HighAvoidimplement protection mechanisms511/6/22Programming errortechnologicalSofware sizes to workinability to have any work doneBallot OnlineVery LikelyMinorAcceptable Risk: LowAvoidhave a fall back option611/6/22data lossData lossboth company and client data lostoccurs when no back up facility has been initiatedcloud service providerUnlikelyModerateAcceptable Risk: LowMitigate There has to be a back up system put in place711/6/22Information that is stored by the cloud service provider is compromisedData breachcompany data become publicly accesiblecloud service provider does not take breach seriouly by faling to conduct testscloud service providerLikelyMajorUnacceptable Risk: Extremely HighAvoidobtain assurance from the provider that such a risk cannot occur811/6/22password breacheither insider or outsiderunauthorized accesspassword being to weakPersonel or IT departmentVery LikelyMajorUnacceptable Risk: HighMitigate come up with a strict password policy911/6/22data breachhackers/ vendorcompromized dataoccurs when sensitive data has been exposedcloud service providerVery LikelyMajorUnacceptable Risk: Extremely HighTransfer Data monitoring1011/6/22fire/floodenviromentalproperty damageextream weather or distastersBallot Online/ cloud service providerUnlikelyMajorUnacceptable Risk: Extremely HighAcceptDistaster recovery measuresSelect OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect One Select OneSelect OneSelect OneSelect On.
Payment Security Market by Product Type, Distribution Channel, End User 2024-...IMARC Group
The global payment security market size reached US$ 27.2 Billion in 2023. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach US$ 80.2 Billion by 2032, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% during 2024-2032.
More Info:- https://www.imarcgroup.com/payment-security-market
DRIVER Expe42 Den Haag - demo on April 19th 2016Denis Havlik
These slides lead through the "canned experiment" that was organised at the first day of DRIVER experiment on crisis communication and informal volunteering.
The global financial fraud detection software market size is expected to exhibit a growth rate (CAGR) of 13.23% during 2024-2032.
More Info:- https://www.imarcgroup.com/financial-fraud-detection-software-market
New approach to a risk integrated strategy to address ongoing challenges in MENA-Turkey (and rest of world) when dealing with (geopolitical) risk threatening or defining your investment or operational performance.
1. LLC
Introduction and Services
MEA Risk LLC is a company that performs tracking/alerting
activity, risk rating and analysis specific to the African
continent, with a goal to expand worldwide. Tracking and
alerting are related to events and incidents that constitute
critical risk factors to countries, organizations and individuals.
Events and incidents are captured by teams on the ground, and
summarized, analyzed and immediately disseminated to clients
around the world. We are expanding to enable crowd-sourcing,
leveraging new technologies and the widespread use of
smartphones.
In broad terms, MEA Risk consists of the following two
major services:
MEA Risk LLC
Desktop Platform:
CRITICAL
INCIDENTS
TRACKER
The Mobile
Platform:
SHIELD & ALERT
MEA Risk LLC is a US-
based tracking, analysis
and forecasting firm with
central offices in Miami,
Boston, Toronto, and the
Netherlands. The
company is incorporated
in the State of Nevada,
USA.
MEA Risk maintains an
active presence across
Africa, with
representations at
regional management
level in Algiers, Cairo,
Nairobi, Johannesburg,
Cotonou, etc. From these
locations (and expanding),
MEA Risk regional leaders
manage teams of trackers
and analysts scattered
across the continent.
Our services: In simple
terms, we are your eyes
and ears in Africa. We
track incidents and events
that constitute a threat to
stability and security,
information that we
deliver through our
desktop and mobile
platforms, enhanced with
analyses, reports and
consulting.
Contact Information
Phone: US+ 508-981-6937
inquiries@MEA-Risk.com
66 West Flagler Street
12th Floor, Suite 1204-A
Miami, FL 33130, USA
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1-For the Desktop Analysis Platform:
CRITICAL INCIDENTS TRACKER
This is MEA Risk’s desktop platform that is built with the Risk Analyst in mind. It consists of a set of tools that combines a
cloud-based database, a live feed into a geo-mapping user interface, a set of analytics, a series of alerts and a set of
analyst reports. Below are some of the key features of Critical Incidents Tracker (CIncidents)
1.1 The Live Visual Geo-Map of Critical Incidents (or CIncidents):
Users have the ability to visualize incidents as soon as on-the-ground Trackers see them. The Trackers use all their
personal and public sources available to identify issues and submit them to a Regional Moderating Analyst before
releasing them to clients. Some of what they report may even be rumors, which are reported as such. The user interface
is a live map that is fed from a continuously updated database of incidents, stored and secured in our datacenter
infrastructure located in Utah and Los Angeles.
Each incident is rated based on its severity and impact on stability (Taxonomy available upon request), with reports
including the outcome of events in the form of collateral damage such as deaths, wounded, and arrests, if any. The end
result is not only a sophisticated visual interface as shown in the image below, but also, and more importantly, a set of
analytical reports that leverage the reported data and transform the statistics into risk ratings.
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The Interface
The rates of the events are reflected within the pin.
The average for any given period is called CIncidents Index.
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Shortcuts to zoom on
specific days of the ongoing week
Incident definition based on
selected pin. Default is last reported
incident. By clicking, a summary
opens and more information is
available
Shortcuts to display latest
20 t latest incidents per category
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Query tool includes:
Date selector
Analytics & reports
Country selector
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1.2 Analytics & Raw Data Access:
Our database capabilities provide us with a new way of looking at risk and country stability. We use a combination of
science and art, bringing together a series of analytics and intelligence to comprehend events in a more objective way,
essentially using statistics. In addition to the pre-built and interactive charts, we allow users to download the data in its
raw format either as CSV or in the form of Microsoft’s Excel.
1.3 Heat maps Visualization
MEA Risk makes a series of choropleth and heat maps available to users, providing an immediate visualization of risks.
These are interactive maps that can be queried, downloaded and shared. More sophisticated interactive mapping
capabilities showcasing heat maps will be released in the coming weeks.
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1.4 Premium Research Services – Syndicated Research, Advisory Services and Consulting
In addition to CIncidents and the set of analytics and raw data access, MEA Risk offers custom and syndicated research
that provides clients with a set of written reports and briefings delivered on a scheduled basis. Each region offers at
least one weekly MEA Risk Digest, a monthly regional analysis and a set of adhoc alerts.
We also conduct strategic custom research for clients looking for specific information, training sessions and courses. We
have conducted a number of them for global corporations, government entities, academia, and many others in an effort
to help executives, managers, researchers and officers to understand the environment in which they operate.
1.5 Covered Regions
Today MEA Risk offers coverage for the Maghreb, Sahel, Egypt, Nigeria and East Africa zones. New infrastructure is
under development in Southern, Central and Western Africa, which will debut in summer 2015.
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2- For the Mobile Platform: The Must-Have Travel Security Companion
Forthcoming release on iOS and Android
Shield & Alert (S&A) takes the data and the due diligence performed on the desktop platform and deploys it into the
mobile world for IMMEDIATE access to critical information. In addition, it leverages crowd sourcing to enhance tracking.
It is truly your eyes and ears on the ground so you are informed of risk around you.
As additional and optional features S&A provides you with the ability to register your travel itinerary, and if in distress
you can send a distress signal to your Manager, colleagues, security team, and even family and friends, if you wish so.
Such alert system allows the recipient of the distress to identify you exact GPS location, if and when enabled.
The following are usage scenarios for the main features:
2.1 Shield & Alert Premium
Feature definition: S&A Premium provides coverage in the area of interest to you. Whether you
just landed at a local airport for business, you have been assigned as a diplomat, you are an
expatriate, or an academic S&A Premium is a must have tool, considering the following scenarios:
1. You land in your destination city.
2. S&A immediately informs you of critical incidents that have occurred or are occurring within
your selected radius based on your GPS location, assuming GPS feature is enabled. You can edit
the zone of coverage to adjust the 300-mile default. Information is displayed on a map and user
can switch to list view instead of map view.
3. Critical incidents include terrorism, security and enforcement operations, major criminal
activities, riots, public demonstrations, major social disruptions, etc. You can edit the categories
so you get alerts only on what matters to you.
4. Each event is rated by our Analysts in terms of its severity. Ratings are from 0.5 (minimal
severity) to 5.0 (maximum impact).
5. An alarm sound is available for specific profiles. For example you only want to be alerted of a
“terror act, within 50 miles of my current location, that is rated 2.5 on scale of 0.5 to 5.0″ –
Anything else will keep the alarm sound silent.
6. A rating for the region where you are located is shown in the Analytics section of the app. The
data will provide you up-to-date rating of the risk level of the region you are visiting.
7. S&A is continuously updated and monitored 24 hrs/day by our trackers.
Availability: Please visit http://www.Shield-Alert.com for time-table.
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2.2 Travel Registry (optional feature)
Wherever your travel around the world, not just in Africa, make sure to register within MEA Risk’s Travel Registry.
1. Register your travel dates in advance or simply tell the App you want to be covered.
2. Write a specific message in case you need immediate assistance.
3. Register your emergency contact numbers (company security, manager, supervisor, relatives, parents, etc).
4. You may even include your Facebook and Twitter connections, or keep it within closed loop for corporations.
5. If you need immediate assistance, push the HELP button and an instant message will be broadcast to your contact list.
6. Your message will include your exact GPS location
Availability: Please visit http://www.Shield-Alert.com for time-table.
Additional upcoming feature in Travel Registry: Connections Database: “Know what’s around you”: Think of this
features as a database of MUST-have contact info, from embassies and consular services, to your company’s private
local directory, to local and regional security and enforcement agencies, etc. (Under Development)
2.3 The Incident Reporter
Crowd-sourcing mechanism to report incidents either for public broadcast or
for private corporate networks.
1. A reporting form is provided to registered users, whether they are Premium
users or not, to contribute to reporting incidents they are witnessing.
2. The form is simple and the events are categorized according to taxonomy.
3. The incidents submitted through this process undergo a rapid Administrator
review before being released as ‘Third-Party Report.’
4. Premium users can direct the incident only to their organization, if they
choose so. This will keep corporate information private.
5. Or they can share it with the broad user network and make the event public.
6. This service will be used to enhance crowd sourcing reporting.
Availability: Please visit http://www.Shield-Alert.com for time-table.
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Additional S&A Feature: Audio Alert System
This is used when a user decides to be alerted by a siren for any
specific category or rating. An example would be an audio alert
would be triggered when terror act rated 2.5 is reported by MEA
Risk within 100 mile radius. Users can adjust the parameters of
their alerts.
Additional S&A Feature: The Blue Box
While Labeling & Private Corporate Rooms: This feature is available for
organizations that want to use their own brand instead of MEA Risk
brand. This is a feature for organizations wanting to deploy S&A for
employees, customers, and partners. In addition, interactions will be
provided and allowed for the organization subscribing to this service so
that information remains within the organization. Alerts and
notifications from and to employees and the organization will remain
exclusive.
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LARGE SCREENSHOTS OF LATEST VERSION
SHIELD & ALERT LOGO
Default position is user current location
based on GPS. If user is in tracked zone,
events will be displayed on map with
default of 300 mile-radius
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Keyword: ALGIERS Keyword: ILLIZI
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Keyword: NIGER Click on icon to display critical event
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Click on event title to display summary Click on LIST view to get out of map
mode & view region in chronological
order
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Keyword: ORAN Keyword: ORAN EVENT
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Keyword: EVENT SUMMARY App MENU
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REVERSE REPORTING /
CROWDSOURCING
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Region Data | Incidents Statistics User profile, coverage zone
Extended features to be released in version 1.1, including messaging,
alerts receiving, distress sending, white labeling, etc.
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What makes us and our services unique?
MEA Risk LLC is the brainchild of a multidisciplinary team of Experts whose focus spans from risk and security tracking, to
strategic analysis, media reporting and information technology. The core research and tracking team is augmented by a
team of technologists, on the back end, and a client support team on the front end.
-The company’s Chief Executive and Lead Analyst is Arezki Daoud. Born in Algeria, he worked for
oil company Sonatrach after engineering school, dealing with some of the company’s most
challenging issues. After Sonatrach and upon moving to the United States, he held research,
forecasting and consulting positions for the likes of Harvard University, IDG and IDC. In 1996,
Arezki founded The North Africa Journal and has been its Editor-in-Chief since its inception.
Arezki’s knowledge of North African and Sahel issues is outstanding, focusing on all political,
economic, and social issues.
-Dr. Cyril Widdershoven is MEA Risk’s Senior Vice President for the EMEA Region overseeing
research and business development. Dr. Widdershoven is a Middle East and oil-gas Analyst with
broad and deep knowledge of the sector and issues of security, defense and strategy. Cyril’s
professional experience extends to mergers and acquisitions and geopolitical risk analysis. In his
role at MEA Risk, Cyril helps the company in improving its research capabilities, consulting
engagements and business development Europe and the Middle East/Africa.
-Hakim Aftab: From his base within North Africa, Hakim also oversees the Sahel region. His team
covers one of the most unstable zones in the world, with countries as difficult as Libya, Egypt and
Mali, with expanding crises in Chad and Niger. Hakim is a professional security expert. He brings
critical security analysis capabilities unmatched for North Africa and the Sahel. Hakim has been
consulting and continues to consult for leading global corporations on security strategy and
posture, including Baker Hughes, General Electric, Turbomach (Caterpillar), the Japanese
International Cooperation Company, and others. His knowledge goes beyond security and into vetting facilities and
sites, from production plants to hotels.
-Focusing on East Africa from our base in Nairobi in Kenya, Fred Musyoka Kyendo and his team
focus on a difficult region that includes the restive Somalia, South Sudan and a number of
countries. Musyoka is an experienced researcher and publication editor, having been head of
research on economic issues, while tracking crises and investment flows in Africa’s infrastructure
sector.
-Tasked to develop our presence in and tracking of West and Central Africa, Vincent Nanna is a
veteran Analyst and reporter on African affairs. He has worked as correspondent and analyst for
the BBC World Service and has held editorial positions with various institutions, including Emanuel
TV in Lagos, Nigeria. Vince is based in Cotonou in Benin but travels extensively in the region.
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-From our base in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kingsley Ibokette heads MEA Risk’s Southern Africa
unit. Since 2009, Kingsley has been the Regional Administrator Southern Africa for Business Times
Africa Magazine, helping the brand growth expands its presence in over eighteen African countries
and beyond. As part of the leadership team, Kingsley’s primary responsibilities include building a
team of trackers for the southern region and overseeing research and product delivery to our
customers specific to the Southern Africa zone.
-In addition to the team on the ground, MEA Risk is pleased to leverage the expertise of Alessandro
Bruno, a renowned international affairs specialist to head our North America Advisory and
Consulting service. Based in Toronto, Alessandro has been a top commentator on geopolitical
issues for years, and a top media contributor in Canada, from national TV to radio, print and
specialty websites. Alessandro has been Deputy Editor of The North Africa Journal and has lived
and worked in Libya and travel the region extensively.
-We are keenly aware that any success is linked to the quality of service and responsiveness to our
customers. And so we want to have the eyes and ears of our customers as we develop our products
and services. Cristina Denny Peralta (Denny) is tasked to be the advocate of our clients. As a senior
member of our team, she brings strong experience having worked in the high-end luxury goods
market, a sector that requires a great deal of detail and attention. She comes to us from the highly
competitive Miami market where gaining the trust of demanding customers is what made her
successful. Denny oversees customer relations and makes
sure they are constantly in our minds.
Relations with Multinational Institutions: Yasmina Chourfi
ESQ is MEA Risk liason officer with multinational
institutions. She is an International lawyer with a degree in
Comparative Law from the University of Miami, and 25
years experience as a Senior International Protection
Expert at the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees. She held positions in Africa, Europe and the
Middle East. She was a Senior Regional Advisor in Cairo,
from where she undertook field missions in sensitive areas
including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen.
She was active in the promotion and dissemination of
refugee laws and human rights. She also negotiated, at
top senior levels of government, refugee issues and was
involved in peace building efforts. Yasmina is sought as a
consultant and lecturer by NGOs, academics and
international institutions.
What makes us unique
It is our presence on the ground, 24hr availability, dedication to
discovering the next risk now, our efforts to disseminate critical
information immediately, and our ability to prioritize. Our data,
augmented by our unique understanding of the regions we
cover provide us with unique tools to predict the future, not just
in an academic way, but in practical ways thanks to our deeply-
rooted presence in Africa. In turn, this is what customers need
when seeking to mitigate risk and manage security
expectations.
We make security and risk information available to your
Analysts, executives and other employees through a unique
cloud-platform. For your employees in Africa, whether they are
executives, expat workers, diplomats, and many others, we are
their eyes and ears.
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Our Services Aim at:
Reducing the deficit in security information
Speeding up information delivery
Achieving real-time information sharing
Enhancing information quality and reliability
Providing continuous coverage
Making local trackers and analysts availability
Improving predictions and forecasts
Providing shield-like coverage while in Africa
Helping you navigate the intricacies of risk management in Africa
Who should subscribe:
If you have a presence, or interest in Africa, MEA Risk services are a must. Organizations that would benefit from our
services include, but not limited to:
Government entities
Military & enforcement
Multinational agencies
Global corporations
Travel related enterprises
Insurance/credit agencies
Academic institutions
Research & think tanks
Etc
